In February I quoted Charlotte Allen quoting Geoffrey Miller on New Paleolithic Mating: Some relationships might have lasted no more than a few days. … Many Pleistocene mothers probably had boyfriends. But each woman’s boyfriend may not have been the father of any of her offspring. … Males may have given some food to females and their offspring, and may have defended them from other men, but … more as courtship effort than paternal investment.
Not Paleolithic Mating
Not Paleolithic Mating
In February I quoted Charlotte Allen quoting Geoffrey Miller on New Paleolithic Mating: Some relationships might have lasted no more than a few days. … Many Pleistocene mothers probably had boyfriends. But each woman’s boyfriend may not have been the father of any of her offspring. … Males may have given some food to females and their offspring, and may have defended them from other men, but … more as courtship effort than paternal investment.
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